Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Africa and the South Seas, for example, developed through settled centuries a mastery of their native materials and deep traditions of style. Natives in New Ireland did carving with mussel shells which no 20th Century artist could imitate with his tools. African tribes smelted alloys of metal in blast furnaces before white men knew of such processes, made adzes, chisels and gouges for their skilled carvers, cast fine bronzes at Benin...
...mixing the ore with sulphuric acid. In 1922, however, a better method came into general use- mixing ore and sand in electric furnaces at high temperatures. This put August Kochs in a pretty fix, for competitors had tied up the southern power supply. Undaunted, Chemist Kochs adapted the blast furnace used by the steel industry, spent $500,000 in experimentation before Victor finally regained its dominance in 1928. Last year Victor paid dividends of $1.25 on 621,000 shares of stock. In the first six months of this year, the company made a profit...
...that instant there came the mounting whistling scream of a falling bomb and a blast of sound that smashed every window and almost every glass in the Cathay bar. Instantly another followed, landed full on the Palace hotel across the street. In the lobby of the Palace stood United Pressman John R. Morris. He wrote...
Lately he gave the impression of having said his final say on science, because neither he nor Science knew where they were going. Renewed by the mathematical impredictability of the electron, the old war between Determinism and Free Will was again going full blast, but Sullivan could not bring himself to join those who aligned themselves cocksurely on one side or the other. He devoted himself to writing novels, lived in a small cottage in Surrey, neglected to the last to take regular medical treatment. Suffering from locomotor ataxia, he died in an advanced stage of syphilis...
Westbrook Pegler's ''Fair Enough" column appeared last week in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with the following blast: "Genius has followed the election returns in the case of Mrs. John Boettiger, the President's daughter, for she also went journalistic after Mr. Roosevelt's first election and, within the last year, above all the thousands of professional newspaper women in the United States who need jobs by which to live, has been singled out as peculiarly qualified for sub-editorship on one of Mr. Hearst's newspapers." Mrs. Boettiger is women's editor...